+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html">A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 3rd February 2017</div>
+ <div class="body"><p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-in-court.jpeg"></p>
+
+<p>On Wednesday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
+representing <a href="https://www.nuug.no/">the member association
+NUUG</a>, alongside <a href="https://www.efn.no/">the member
+association EFN</a> and <a href="http://www.imc.no">the DNS registrar
+IMC</a>, challenging the seizure of the DNS name popcorn-time.no. It
+was interesting to sit in a court of law for the first time in my
+life. Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
+Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
+Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen.</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.domstol.no/no/Enkelt-domstol/follo-tingrett/Nar-gar-rettssaken/Beramming/?cid=AAAA1701301512081262234UJFBVEZZZZZEJBAvtale">The
+case at hand</a> is that the Norwegian National Authority for
+Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (aka
+Økokrim) decided on their own, to seizure a DNS domain early last
+year, without following
+<a href="https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12">the
+official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority</a> which require a
+court decision. The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
+Time. And Popcorn Time is the name of a technology with both legal
+and illegal applications. Popcorn Time is a client combining
+searching a Bittorrent directory available on the Internet with
+downloading/distribute content via Bittorrent and playing the
+downloaded content on screen. It can be used illegally if it is used
+to distribute content against the will of the right holder, but it can
+also be used legally to play a lot of content, for example the
+millions of movies
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/movies">available from the
+Internet Archive</a> or the collection
+<a href="http://vodo.net/films/">available from Vodo</a>. We created
+<a href="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:86c1802af5a667ca56d3918aecb7d3c0f7173084&dn=PresentasjonFolloTingrett.mov&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce">a
+video demonstrating legally use of Popcorn Time</a> and played it in
+Court. It can of course be downloaded using Bittorrent.</p>
+
+<p>I did not quite know what to expect from a day in court. The
+government held on to their version of the story and we held on to
+ours, and I hope the judge is able to make sense of it all.
+Unfortunately I do not have high hopes, as the Government have the
+upper hand here with more knowledge about the case, better training in
+handling criminal law and in general higher standing in the courts
+than fairly unknown DNS registrar and member associations. It is
+expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the case have cost more
+than NOK 70 000,-. To help fund the case, NUUG and EFN have asked for
+donations, and managed to collect around NOK 25 000,- so far. Given
+the presentation from the Government, I expect the government to
+appeal if the case go our way. And if the case do not go our way, I
+hope we have enough funding to appeal.</p>
+
+<p>From the other side came two people from Økokrim. On the benches,
+appearing to be part of the group from the government were two people
+from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer office, and three others I am not
+quite sure who was. Økokrim had proposed to present two witnesses
+from The Motion Picture Association, but this was rejected because
+they did not speak Norwegian and it was a bit late to bring in a
+translator, but perhaps the two from MPA were present anyway. All
+seven appeared to know each other. Good to see they take the case
+seriously.</p>
+
+<p>If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
+domain is hijacked by the government, or you believe the Popcorn Time
+technology have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you
+too <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">donate to
+the NUUG defense fund</a>. Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are
+available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action (very
+unlikely), the rest will be spend promoting free software, open
+standards and unix-like operating systems in Norway, so no matter what
+happen the money will be put to good use.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
+<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/">the blog
+posts from NUUG covering the case</a>. They cover the legal arguments
+on both sides.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
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<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nasjonalbiblioteket_avslutter_sin_ulovlige_bruk_av_Google_Skjemaer.html">Nasjonalbiblioteket avslutter sin ulovlige bruk av Google Skjemaer</a></div>
<div class="date">12th January 2017</div>
</div>
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- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html">Fortsatt ingen sikkerhetsoppdateringer for billettautomatene til kollektivtrafikken i Oslo?</a></div>
- <div class="date">29th November 2016</div>
- <div class="body"><p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html">For
-fire og et halvt år siden</a> lot jeg meg overraske over at Ruters
-billettautomater for kollektivtrafikken i Oslo kjørte
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000">Windows 2000
-Professional</a>, et og et halvt år etter at Microsoft hadde gitt
-beskjed om at det ikke lenger kom sikkerhetsoppdateringer til
-systemet. Støtten fra Microsoft
-<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=Windows+2000&Filter=FilterNO">tok
-slutt 2010-07-13 i følge Wikipedia og Microsoft selv</a>.</p>
-
-<p>For fem dager siden passerte jeg på nytt en slik billettautomat som
-hadde brutt sammen, og den annonserte fortsatt at den kjører Windows
-2000 Professional, nå mer enn seks år siden Microsoft sluttet å komme
-med sikkerhetspatcher til produktet. Sikret meg et bilde av
-krasjmeldingen på skjermen.
-
-<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-11-29-ruter-win2000pro.jpeg"><img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-11-29-ruter-win2000pro.jpeg" alt="[foto av billettautomat]"></a></p>
-
-<p>Mon tro om de mangler kildekoden til systemet som kjører på
-automaten, og dermed ikke uten videre kan oppgradere?</p>
-
-<p>Jeg ser jo fra
-<a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/ruterbillett_app">en
-innsynshenvendelse om kildekoden til billett-Appen til Ruter på Mimes
-brønn</a> at Ruter tilsynelatende ikke legger sikkerheten i
-sertifikater, nøkler og passord, men i stedet baserer seg på at
-logikken i programvaren holdes hemmelig. Det borger ikke godt for
-sikkerheten i Ruters datasystemer.
-
-<p>Det er nå tre og et halvt år siden
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/osloby/Ingen-nye-Ruter-automater-for-sommeren-118460b.html">Ruter
-fortalte Aftenposten at nye automater ble minst seks måneder
-forsinket</a>, da leverandøren ikke hadde god nok kontroll. Det kan
-virke som om leverandøren ikke er alene om å ikke ha god nok
-kontroll.</p>
-
-<p>Bildet er tilgjengelig for bruk med bruksvilkårene til
-<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/no/">Creative
-Commons Navngivelse 3.0 Norge (CC BY 3.0)</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Oppdatering 2016-12-01: Saken har fått omtale på
-<a href="http://www.digi.no/artikler/petter-advarte-selskapet-allerede-i-2012-da-systemkraesjen-dukket-opp-igjen-pa-tirsdag-ble-han-svaert-overrasket/365613">digi.no</a>
-og
-<a href="https://nrkbeta.no/2016/12/01/mener-oslos-billettsystem-er-en-tikkende-bombe/">NRK
-Beta</a>.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter</a>.
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